Jim Calhoun
Jim Calhoun
James A. Calhoun is the former head coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team. His teams won three NCAA national championships, played in four Final Fours, won the 1988 NIT title, and seven Big East tournament championships. With his team's 2011 NCAA title win, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to win a Division I men's basketball title. He won his 800th game in 2009 and finished his career with 873 victories, ranking 12th all-time as of...
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Their big guys dominated us. Last night when I went to bed or this morning when I woke up, I would never have thought that would have happened. Maybe a wash, but certainly not that.
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Their arrogance doesn't show. They are not doing any kind of chest thumping that some teams carry, in my opinion, too far.
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This is my favorite time of the year. I love it. I just hope we come out and play the best basketball possible. Win and advance: that's all we think about. It's one game at a time. We don't talk at all about Indianapolis or Washington, D.C.
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This is making me, for once in my life, sit down and look at the past,
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The heart of Denham, the will of Denham ...
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The difference between the two teams, quite frankly, was we're a little more athletic and a little more experienced. That's what it came down to.
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Am I finding a team with more resolve and more focus? Yeah. No question. You don't need 100 tough guys. You don't need 100 warriors. You need a couple leaders that can get you that. It becomes contagious.
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All those numbers would tell you that we did not do the things we're capable of doing at all times. We didn't do some of the things I know we're capable of. We had moments, but not enough.
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All those numbers will tell you that we did not do what we are capable of doing. We have to accentuate what we do well.
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All of a sudden the game changed when Jeff Adrien got in it. That was something for a freshman to express his emotion the way he did.
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The game was allowed to be physical on the outside through double teams, that's just the way the game evolved. Inside, we would have been fine with that.
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It certainly was one of the most disappointing losses we've had in an awful long time. We came out flat as heck. Just as we thought, that shot (yesterday) carried their momentum right into today.
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It certainly was one of the more disappointing losses we've had in an awfully long time.
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It certainly was one of the more disappointing losses we've had in an awful long time. I'm proud of the way the kids came back. But I'm incredibly, incredibly disappointed in the loss and incredibly disappointed in myself.